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kevinteljeur

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Dublin 15, Ireland. Nobody wants to read what I write once they’ve read what I’ve written. I assuredly will write it. I also post occasionally about coding, bird-feeding, photos of things, cycling, and drawing (once in a while).

I architect and develop web systems to move data for a very big non-commercial organisation. I'd love to make something that improves the world for everyone though. Maybe one day?

he/him. #nobot

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A quick jaunt to the shops. In the nice weather.

I can’t get my ear wet.

kevinteljeur,
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I have lived here for over half a century and learned nothing at all

kevinteljeur, to random
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I never knew that I had so many local councillors who cared so much about my quality of life! To be fair, the local Labour councillor does flier drops every few months about stuff she's looking into. The rest are all new to me.

kevinteljeur, to random
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It's a beautiful day, it's bird nesting season, and all the pesticide spray guys are out! Yayyyyyyyyy

kevinteljeur,
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@blabberlicious 🤔

kevinteljeur, to random
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In meeting. Hearing annoying, distracting background noise. Thought someone had a radio on. But no-one could hear it, manager suggested that I had a background browser tab with audio. He was right.

Mortified.

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Mixed feelings about that E-scooter legislation; it's needed, but also banning a lot of parents from taking their kids (for example, to school) on them. Maybe still allowed on footpaths, etc? On the flip side, they're not enforcing much of anything so it's purely conceptual.

ronanmcd, to cycling
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This is an interesting article on road.cc about the issues around the industry and nosediving profits.
It mentions "In very basic terms, pandemic = bike boom, bike boom = brands purchasing more stock to meet demand, pandemic ends and demand drops = less buyers for said stock, less buyers = stock sitting on shelves unsold. In short, not good."
But I would add this would not be an issue if... 1/2
link: https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-15-may-2024-308373

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@ronanmcd Maybe they got into that mindset from the technology industry, but they can't add a game-changing new feature every year. There are only a few thousands of people making enough money from cycling to justify annual turnover of equipment. It's not like you and I using a computer to earn a living.

14 sprockets on the cassette! 14! Now you can... Uhhh.

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@ronanmcd Not that I think the car industry is a shining light but you wouldn't expect a new model of car every two years and think that everyone's rushing out to buy one. It's a lot of money and you don't need to.

Maybe Canyon or Trek should release a fat bike made of stainless steel with the gears levers on the forks and you can't get mud on it or cycle over rocks.

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@ronanmcd Something to bear in mind is that they have multiple tiers of bike in various categories, separated by maybe a couple of hundred euro, each with multiple sizes. If you change this every year... Yeah, that's a hell of a trap to fall into. And some of these will sell like hot cakes, and some won't. I don't think they're making bikes on demand.

Look at Ribble (which is boutique, admittedly). They'll only build it if they've sold it. It's not scalable, but it's strategy with safety.

kevinteljeur, to random
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Just had someone at the door campaigning for the local Fianna Fáil candidate. She's done a lot for locals, apparently. Including setting up a food bank.

The last Taoiseach was Fianna Fáil. I wish I'd said that to her. The lack of self awareness.

kevinteljeur, to random
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[cry-screaming at estate agents] Lusk and Finglas are not in Dublin 15!

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This is addressing the elephant in the room in a number of recent fatal car accidents: https://www.thejournal.ie/seatbelt-silencers-ireland-6367290-May2024/ - Mick's Garage specifically getting called out here. If you're doing less than Amazon for buyer safety, you need to take a look at yourself.

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I think that a problem in Ireland is that we're culturally very sensitive around death, so we treat fatal accidents as 'something that happened somehow'. And I think it would be better if we didn't have that and directly addressed some of these behaviours that get people killed.

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It seems to me that maybe The Journal got wind of something (the seatbelt alarm disabler) which hasn't been publicly addressed yet (and it's another reason to disband the RSA, if that's the case), and so they're approaching it in this way.

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@ronanmcd There have been a few fatal accidents over the past year where, although we couldn't talk about it, it was clear that this may have been a factor. The collisions were bad but the passengers were all killed, young people. And an unspoken truth was that it was likely that some or all were not wearing seatbelts. And if that had been spoken about front and centre, maybe more lives would have been saved. Thanks, RSA.

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@ronanmcd I have to say, I was gobsmacked that at the funeral of that group of young people who were killed in a single-vehicle RTA recently, it was a celebration of young people driving unsafely in high-powered cars that were probably not street legal.

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@ronanmcd Again, I don't know what the real problem is. The RSA can talk about it, it could address it in some way, but they don't. The dead can't sue.

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@ronanmcd There's that, and I get the grief, but the sensitivity crosses over past a point where they celebrate the thing that took their beloved relatives and friends away from them. It's so specific.

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@JohnLoader6 That has included recently a number of very young people who were probably told by the adult in control of the car that it was all good.

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@blabberlicious Ireland is very much more a Mediterranean culture than a Germanic one.

kevinteljeur, to random
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I can now announce that the summer duvet has been deployed.

ronanmcd, to random
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On LinkedIn: I was very saddened to hear of the death of this person who worked to end child slavery and the turning of human remains into vitamin sludge drinks. In honour of their life's work we are offering 5% off the first month of our vitamin sludge subscription.
Replies on LinkedIn: Wow, what a touching gesture, so moving. And a concidence, our product, ThingYouDontNeed, is also 5% off this week!

Yes, I just checked my LinkedIn

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@ronanmcd That's horrible. What flavours do the vitamin sludge drinks come in?

kevinteljeur, to random
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I found the screen grabs of my old car ad conversation from adverts ie, and I had remembered it as hilarious repartee but actually I was quite vicious to the doofus that was trying to get me to sell my car for a third of its value (although not mean) and I'm not as amused by it now as I was.

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I can't understand how I thought that a lot of the stuff I was assembling then was worth doing. It's coarse or offensive or needless. I wish someone had taken me aside and told me off. Maybe they did and I didn't pick up on it because I was an idiot.

Maybe then me would've found now me a dry shite.

eibhear, to random

We do know, don't we, that data centres are used for many things that we utterly depend on:

  • Our banking -- without which we would not be able to plan for the next day/next month/next year/retirement?
  • Our social welfare payments?
  • Our tax payments?
  • Keeping in touch with our loved ones?
  • Engaging in society in general?
  • Keeping our homes safe?
  • etc.

I get that data centres are causing serious issues for Ireland and its electricity supply and that we need a coherent environmental policy to deal with that, but burning down all the data centres without regard for whether we like the full range of consequences is not really a coherent policy.

Data centres are used for some vital purposes, as well a frivolous shite. We need to define what uses fall into the various categories[^1], understand the proportional breakdown for each category and develop a policy to support the continuity of the vital services while discouraging the frivolous shite[^2].

[^1] Large Language Models and their generative AI counterparts being categorised as frivolous shite, in my opinion.
[^2] We could talk about banning it, but you can be assured such a ban would not get through a court challenge.

kevinteljeur,
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@eibhear The idea that I was espousing before for resource use - because I'm someone who hosts stuff in a data centre but also locally, so I absolutely get all the sides of it - is taxation/resource costing based on employment of people; head-count based resource costing.

I'm not saying 'I've solved it' but it would incentivise efficiency of resource use. If the resource is used for a local business, then maybe the headcount of that business or the number of customers in Ireland served.

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